Kyoto, Japan -- "It takes a village to raise a child" doesn't apply merely to humans. Many species of mammals, birds, fish, ...

The emperor cichlid, also known as the giant cichlid, can grow to up three feet long and is found only in Lake Tanganyika in ...

The macabre diets of scale-eating cichlids help shed light on the important role of frequency dependence in shaping genetic variation and the natural world. By Jeffrey McKinnon / MIT Press Reader ...

A tiny striped fish called Neolamprologus obscurus only found in Lake Tanganyika in Zambia excavates stones to create shelter and increase the abundance of food for all fish in the group. This study ...

Global warming has hit fish numbers in Lake Tanganyika, one of the world's largest and deepest lakes, according to a new study. The study, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania has embarked on a new project geared to replenish the dwindling fish stock in Lake Tanganyika -- the world's second deepest freshwater body, officials ...

The lake's fish are a critical part of the diet of neighbouring countries, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia, providing up to 60 percent of the animal protein consumed in ...

The decrease in fishery productivity in Lake Tanganyika since the 1950s is a consequence of global warming rather than just overfishing, according to a new report. The lake was becoming warmer at the ...

Scientists have discovered that Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and deepest lake in the world, is at the warmest in 1,500 years. Some 10 million people in Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and the ...

Africa’s deepest freshwater lake holds a dizzying array of animals, including hundreds of species of cichlid fish found nowhere else in the world. They crowd the waters of Lake Tanganyika, with scales ...

New research suggests rising temperatures are responsible for the decline in fish in Africa's Lake Tanganyika. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic Lake Tanganyika, the second largest freshwater lake in the world, ...